By Usman Abubakar, Maiduguri
The Ombudsman of Borno State Public Complaints Commission (PCC), Alhaji Yusuf Adamu, has warned the residents of Maiduguri to desist from dumping refuse on waterways to avoid a recurrence of last September’s flood that devastated major sections of the metropolis.
The flood, according to official sources, claimed about 150 lives, displaced over a million residents and crumbled properties worth billions of naira.
“I went round locations affected by the flood and sadly observed that it was aggravated by people were dumping refuge on waterways; which shouldn’t be case,” Alhaji Adamu said in Maiduguri, Monday, November 11.
He was speaking when he led a team of the commission’s officials on a courtesy visit to the Borno State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The ombudsman charger journalists in the state to, therefore, lead the fight against such bad practices with their reportage to avoid a recurrence of the flood.
